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New Magic Mushrooms Could Fix Depression, Addiction, Epilepsy, and More

Via Observer.com In the late 1950s, Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who “discovered” LSD mostly by accident, started experimenting with something even more powerful: magic mushrooms. Indigenous people in Mexico had been observed using mushrooms in religious rituals by western visitors several years earlier. One of the interlopers sent a sample to Hofmann, who became the first […]

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Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

Via CBC The health professionals can use psilocybin themselves to begin to develop therapies Four months after it allowed a handful of palliative care patients to use psilocybin as a way to relieve end-of-life suffering, Health Canada has cleared the way for more than a dozen health professionals to use the psychedelic drug themselves to

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We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression

Via The Guardian At Imperial College we’ve been comparing psilocybin to conventional antidepressants – and the results are likely to be game-changing The world is experiencing a devastating physical health emergency. But the coronavirus pandemic has also seen a renewed focus on our psychological wellbeing. Loneliness, uncertainty and grief may be intensifying an already acute

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